The MegaRAID SATA 300-8x also features the technology of the Intel IOP331 I/O processor and 128MB of embedded DDR 333 memory. The Intel IOP331 I/O processor integrates DDR memory and a PCI-X bridge, making it the first complete Intel XScale architecture-based I/O system on a chip (SoC).

"LSI Logic MegaRAID solutions continue to set the standard for high-performance fault-tolerant data protection, and the MegaRAID SATA 300-8X builds on this with high data throughput, extensive fault tolerance capabilities, and advanced management utilities," says Bullinger. "The MegaRAID SATA 300-8X brings the full spectrum of SATA II features and capabilities to market, built upon the proven MegaRAID architecture and a complete suite of system and application support software."

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Unitrends Software Corp. this week announced the availability of its Data Protection Unit (DPU) 3000 appliance, a data protection device that offers three terabytes of local, disk-to-disk backup capacity. The DPU 3000 joins a family of DPUs designed to provide rapid file-level backup, restore, and bare metal recovery for more than 20 operating environments.

Unitrends Data Protection Unit

The DPU 3000 features 16 SATA drives (two arrays with 7 250GB disks in RAID 5 configuration and one additional drive assigned as a hot spare in each array), as well as four network ports that work in tandem with hardware- and driver-based load balancing and offer up to four GBs of network throughput.
With its enhanced hardware redundancy, the large-capacity unit delivers the same functional and administrative benefits of existing DPUs, but is able to store larger quantities of data and bare metal images.

The DPU 3000 ships with preinstalled Unitrends Data Protection Software, which features bare metal functionality that enables an administrator to burn a single CD for use in recovering a variety of systems and operating environments. As with other DPUs in the Unitrends family, multiple DPU 3000s can be combined with Unitrends Secure Data Sync software for moving data across networks to a Data Protection Vault (DPV) that provides remote offsite disaster recovery.

"More customers are recognizing the performance and management advantages of disk-to-disk backup," states Jacques McCormack, Unitrends' president. "And they realize the need to protect all of their data and applications. This translates into higher storage capacity requirements for local data-protection solutions. The DPU 3000 answers our customers' demand for increased storage capacity."

Pricing for the DPU 3000 starts at an MSRP of $55,861. The units are available exclusively through Unitrends' network of authorized resellers.
Additional Information is available on the Unitrends web site.
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